Principal Information Security Specialist

3 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Queensland Police Service Full time

The Cyber Security Design team works closely with solution architects and project staff to design and implement the security aspects of ICT solutions for the QPS and partner agencies. This includes activities such as:

- Security solution design, build and implementation. Security advice and guidance. Threat risk assessments. Facilitation of penetration testing. Tier 3 problem resolution support.

**The core capability requirements for this role are**:

- Plan, manage and participate in delivering the security aspects of small to large scale technical projects. This includes delivering detailed security designs and the configuration and implementing of security infrastructure and related services. Provide technical expertise in the configuration of security services and infrastructure. Conduct risk and vulnerability assessments and develop reports on findings, providing both strategic and tactical advice including recommendations on remediation and mitigation of future risks. Actively participate in prioritising team workload, mentoring analysts and providing training and guidance in best practice security architecture and control implementation. Critically assess existing IT policies, standards and procedures and develop new policies, standards and procedures as required. Continually expand knowledge of developments and trends within the network and information security industry in order to evaluate the benefit and applicability of new and emerging technologies.

Role Requirements

**Qualification**:

- Highly Desirable: Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science or equivalent and/or Information Security industry certifications such as GIAC (GSE, GDSA), CISSP, SABSA, TOGAF, CEH, OSCP, CCSP, CISM, Cloud Architecture Certification (AWS, Azure) and security vendor specific certifications.

**Technical/ Operational/ Educational experience**:

- 5+ years of demonstrated experience, with an advanced skill level, in security architecture design, build and implementation. Demonstrated experience in assessing risk and utilising security control frameworks such as the ASD ISM, NIST and ISO27000 series of securitymanagement standards. Demonstrated experience, in the effective configuration, and problem resolution of enterprise security infrastructure and services, such as: - Enterprise Firewalls & IDS/IPS- Application Delivery Controllers (Application Firewalls, Reverse Proxies, Load Balancers)
- Identity & Access Management
- Multifactor Authentication & RADIUS- Cloud based services such as AWS & Azure
- SIEM & SOAR- DNS, NTP, FTP- PKI- Endpoint Security

Applications to remain current for 12 months.
**Job Ad Reference**: QLD/569277/24
**Closing Date**: Tuesday, 18th June 2024This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.



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